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304 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1930
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule;
From a wild weird clime that lieth sublime
Out of Space—out of Time.
—Poe
And the two wild peoples of the north
Stood fronting in the gloam,
And heard and knew each in his mind
A third great sound upon the wind,
The living walls that hedge mankind,
The walking walls of Rome.
—Chesterton
Like the Conan epos, the stories featuring King Kull are set in a pseudo-historical period that Robert E. Howard called the "Hyborian Age." He described this era in some detail in an essay published under the homonymous title in the February 1936 issue of The Phantagraph. [...] The complete essay is available here: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/060...